Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) as seen by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been ...

A recent study published in Nature examines spectacular new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that reveals the oldest and farthest spiral galaxy like our Milky Way ever discovered, ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

Left: The galaxy J0107a observed in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope. The two galaxies seen in the lower part of the image are unrelated foreground objects. (Credit: NASA) Right: The ...

Spiral galaxies grow by swallowing smaller dwarf galaxies. As they are digested, these dwarf galaxies are severely distorted, forming structures such as surreal tendrils and stellar streams that ...

Named for the Italian mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci, Fibonacci spirals are a distinctive shape related to the Fibonacci sequence — 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc — in which each number is the sum of ...

Spiral galaxies grow by swallowing smaller dwarf galaxies. As they are digested, these dwarf galaxies are severely distorted, forming structures such as surreal tendrils and stellar streams that ...